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anyone here bowfish?

According to this

http://www.aa-fishing.com/mo/missouri-other-fishing.html


Longnose Gar
Lepisosteus osseus
World Record: 25 lbs
The Longnose Gar can be found in lakes and rivers and prefers quiet backwaters with temperatures ranging from 80 to 90 degrees. Also referred to as gar and garfish, It has a long, sword-like mouth loaded with sharp teeth. They are nocturnal feeders and eat most smaller fish. They can be taken on live bait, fish-imitating lures and nylon string "gobs designed to entangle in their teeth. Most longnose gar are taken by bowfishing or spear fishing. The meat is somewhat tasty but quite bony.

25 lbs. and his were WHAT??????? 47 lbs. and 52 lbs. WOW!!!!

They could be world records.


And according the this they most likely were and are both WORLD RECORDS

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...ted+gar+world+record&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Longnose Gar 50lbs 5oz Townsend Miller Trinity River, TX July 30, 1954
 
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braceysdad said:
Was able to pull the new state longnose gar record out of this place yesterday...

60" 47#
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braceysdad said:
broke my own state record for longnose gar...

65" 52lbs 4oz
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constantmotion said:
I don't know how up-to-date this is but your last 2 big ones seem to be a State Record.

http://www.pursuetheoutdoors.com/fishing/fish-records/records.php?state=Mississippi
http://www.landbigfish.com/staterecords/records.cfm?state=Mississippi

But guess that could be rod and reel only.
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nope, they are/were both new state records...
 
I still think you have a new world record. This was the old one from my post above. From the last link, World records for fresh water.

Longnose Gar 50lbs 5oz Townsend Miller Trinity River, TX July 30, 1954 "thumbsup"
 
from this afternoon... 62" 49#

That is 3 fish in less than a month that have broken the state record! Anyone wanna come swimming??
 

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A 59er from today... Just sayin
 

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Mocrawler and i have a trip planned for next spring on the Trinity in TX for huge alligator gar...
 
Got some nice looking fish there"thumbsup"

Really need to get my bow out and start shooting again, bow season is around the corner anyways. I do believe my dad has a setup for bowfishing for my bow.
 
still just sayin...
 

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Come on now Jeff. Gotta step up your game....http://www.wapt.com/slideshow/r/26887831/detail.html

VICKSBURG, Miss. -- A Vicksburg man pulled a 327-pound alligator gar from Chotard Lake in Issaquena County, Mississippi wildlife officials said.
Kenny Williams caught the fish on Valentine's Day. Biologists with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks weighed the fish at 327 pounds. It was 8 feet 5 ¼ inches long and 47.95 inches around the body. Williams said he used nets to catch the fish and then grabbed it by the gills and pulled it into the boat. "At first I didn't think he was that big. But as I was getting him into the boat, it was like, 'How big is this thing?' It was a lot of effort just to get him into the boat," Williams said. "I don't even know how to describe it. It was just huge and hard to get into the boat." MDWFP officials said it could be the largest alligator gar caught. In scientific literature, there was a report from 1963 of a 302-pound alligator gar, Dennis Riecke, of MDWFP said. Williams' fish is definitely the largest since that time, and is certainly the largest recorded in Mississippi, Riecke said. The fish is believed to have been between 50 and 70 years old, wildlife officials said. Williams donated the huge fish to the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson, where it will be prepared for permanent display in the future, wildlife officials said.
 
Heck of a fish indeed! A commercial fisherman catching this fish in a gill net was just a waste to me... Does'nt seem like much sport to that to me. I wish the longnose gar I shoot got this big
 

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